Jump to full article: HealthDay [HealthScout], 2002-07-05
Intro: If you knew you were genetically susceptible to smoking-related cancers, would you kick the habit?
Duke University Medical Center researchers got mixed answers when they did a study that asked that question of older, inner-city black smokers.
Those who were told their genetics put them at increased cancer risk when they smoked were no more likely to quit smoking than smokers who didn't have that genetic susceptibility, says the study, which is published in the July issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention journal. . .
The people in this study smoked an average of 15 cigarettes a day, and 59 percent of them said they tried to quit smoking within the last year. Sixty-eight percent of the study participants believed they would eventually get lung cancer if they didn't stop smoking.
Many of the people in the study already suffered adverse health effects caused by smoking.
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